New York’s MTA to remove trash cans at 29 subway stations to reduce litter (January 28, 2014) Officials are targeting the J and M lines after garbage went down 66 per cent after cans were taken away at 10 stations on 10 other lines.

Illinois Update: Toss a cigarette, face a $1,500 fine (January 16, 2014)Police head outlines mechanics of enforcing the new statewide law against cigarette butt littering, which came into effect January 1st.

Stemming the Tide of Marine Litter: A Global Action Agenda (January 16, 2014) Researchers from the School of Law's Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment worked with environmental scientists on the comprehensive UCLA study, which urges a new global policy effort to tackle crisis of plastic litter in oceans.

Help give litter the heave-ho, Scotland, says Edinburgh's environmental leader Lesley Hinds (January 14, 2014) National figures out last week showed a total of 97 per cent of the streets assessed under the scheme in September last year were found to have an acceptable level of cleanliness – the highest percentage to date since Keep Scotland Beautiful’s assessments began.

Elected official supports Philippines' garbage and litter law, RA 9003 (January 14, 2014) Pampanga Fourth District Board Member Ricardo Yabut is also the author of the “Walang Plastikan” ordinance of the Filipino province that requires commercial establishments to refrain from using plastic in their businesses for a day.

Church deploys over 100 street sweepers (January 9, 2014) Volunteer-street sweepers were provided with food, uniform and IDs and an allowance from the waste management office of the city of Manila - all part of an effort to stop littering during the Catholic holiday.

NGOs: Time to ban plastic bags (January 8, 2014) The non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Brunei said it was time for the No Plastic Weekend campaign in major supermarkets to be turned into a daily basis.

Canada Post mailbox locations still up in the air (January 7, 2014)Officials with the federal crown corporation are still finalizing plans for the transition and "are not in a position to discuss specific community details at this point," a spokesman says of plan to terminate door-to-door urban mail delivery by 2019 and use bulk mailboxes, known magnets for litter.

Fears council reform will hit litter control (January 7, 2014) Government plans to abolish town councils may have a negative impact on efforts to control litter, Irish Business Against Litter has warned.

Sion hospital’s clean-up act nets Rs. 4L in fines (January 4, 2014) "The walls and stairways sported spit stain marks. Plastic bags, bottles and food were found strewn all over the premises as well. Since the time we started the drive in August last year, we have managed to curb littering to a great extent. Our hospital has been spruced up," the dean Dr Avinash Supe said.

Livingstone, Zambia records more than 1 million visitors (January 3, 2014) “In 2014, we hope to satisfy the demands of the people in as far as service delivery is concerned . . . We hope to sustain the cleanliness of the city and ensure that the streets are free of litter.” Mayor Aggrey Njekwa